• Job Description

  Req#: 383

  Sr. Manager, Data Analysis

  Philadelphia, PA, USA Req #383

  Tuesday, February 13, 2024

  The Philadelphia Inquirer is a public benefit corporation owned by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Together, we’re at the center of a critical mission to create a lasting future for ambitious, engaging, and useful local journalism. We’re doing this, in part, by deepening our connection with the communities we serve. Our integrated digital and print platforms are the Philadelphia region’s largest media network. We’re passionate about building a sustainable model for indispensable local journalism, and we take pride in finding diverse, dynamic, and talented individuals to help push our team forward.

  Job Summary

  We are looking for a motivated, experienced Data Analyst with experience managing technical professionals to lead a group of Data Analysts in The Inquirer’s centralized Data and Insights team. This role is a “player-coach” role, in which the successful candidate would also provide analytical support to our Marketing team. Using their keen product sense and analytical rigor, this person will partner with Marketing, Data, Product, Engineering, and newsroom peers to model and monitor initiatives across the Philadelphia Inquirer’s acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention levers. As a leader, this person will also identify ways to make the team’s work more effective and efficient, so that Analysts can have time to explore our data sets and provide stakeholders with new insights.

  Who We Are

  We’re the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Data Analytics team. We’re the data engine helping transform The Inquirer into a subscriber-powered, newsroom-led product. We help our partners all across The Inquirer understand our readers, our stories, and our products.

  What You’ll Do

  • Answer questions about the performance of our various product and marketing initiatives, including conversion, retention, cost to acquire, engagement, and others.

  • Produce reports and reusable dashboards that show the information behind your analyses and recommendations

  • Act as a stakeholder proxy in the design and development of new self-service data retrieval and exploration tools

  • Educate stakeholders on relevant data literacy issues, to help improve their ability to use data to improve decision making

  • Identify and troubleshoot data pipeline and reporting errors

  • Perform ad-hoc analyses when urgent questions arise

  • Participate in the design and implementation of new data governance policies and controls

  Qualifications

  • 5-8 years in data analytics and/or business intelligence

  • 3-5 years of experience managing the careers of other data professionals, including performance reviews, regular coaching sessions, identifying learning opportunities, etc.

  • Advanced knowledge of SQL & Python or similar

  • Prior experience working with analytics engineering tooling such as dbt, advanced BI development in tools such as Looker, Superset, or Tableau

  • Experience designing models for subscriber-focused applications such as acquisition, attribution, uplift, customer LTV

  • Experience designing, running and analyzing experiments

  • Strong communication skills, specifically around sharing actionable insights, training colleagues to use data tools and frameworks, and making effective recommendations

  • Best practices for data design and communication and beliefs as to which tools make teams better at those practices together

  • Experience individually driving projects/analyses with a pragmatic, hands-on mentality to drive towards impact

  • Experience partnering with marketing and finance teams and familiarity with related data concepts is highly desirable

  • Experience at one or more e-commerce or subscription-oriented businesses preferred

  
  

  The Philadelphia Inquirer is committed to attracting a diverse group of interested people to join our team, so please err on the side of applying even if you’re unsure if you meet all the qualifications. We encourage anyone to apply who shares our passion for indispensable journalism and our drive to create a sustainable business model to support it.

  
  

  As an equal opportunity employer, The Inquirer is building an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We especially encourage people from marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds to apply, including people of color, women, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, and people with disabilities.

  Other details

  • Pay Type Hourly

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• About the company

  The Philadelphia Inquirer is a public-benefit corporation that publishes a news website and two daily newspapers that serve the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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